Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Fabio Buzzi's Record! - This month's cover star is a thing of power, speed, menace and beauty. And it won't be long before it's let loose on the world's toughest powerboating endurance records.
Destinations: Somme Valley - This beautiful canalised river is a Channel-hop away, offering some outstanding cruising in a delightful region that played host to the darkest morning in British military history.
Cigars and .45s: A Caribbean Delivery - Any Florida-Cuba-Bahamas cruise is likely to be memorable - especially when it takes place aboard a powered catamaran, and the extra-curricular activities involve pistols and shotguns.
David Cowper's Polar Bound - Whenever there's a first to be had on the sea David Cowper is not far behind. His latest adventure is a circumnaviagtion via the most northerly bits of water the ocean has to offer.
Destinations: the Wash - It always seems to be low tide in this forgotten cruising ground. But the visiting boater will find plenty of harbours, holes and rural retreats worth investigating.
Cumberlidge on Cruising - Lighthouses are characterful buildings, as quirky as the coastline they mark and the keepers who once manned them.
Destinations: Atlantic Portugal - Facilities for visiting boaters in Portugal are getting better all the time, so why not take the long route the Med and spend so'me time investigating this fascinating country?
New Boats - Hatteras 6300; new layouts for the Linssen DS45 Variotop Cruiser; Classsic Cruiser 80
COVER STORY - Boat Report: Sealine S48 - Relax-motorboating isn't hard work: that's the message from Sealine's new sportscruiser, which peppered with ideas and gadgets to make life on board as smooth as possible.
Electronics Review - Mini Chart Plotters - Hand-held GPS devices with in-build mapping are everywhere these days - but very few of them are any use to boaters.
E ditorial - Cowper and Buzzi: two men united by a passion to do what has never been done before.
Wavelength - Southampton's Town Quay marina is the be filled in; BMPT open day news; SeaIine bought by Sea Ray's US parent; Class 1 Offshore Plymouth - full preview; Priddy sets Atlanticc mark in RIB; Somme latest; Mariah go plop; more news.
Boat Report: Skibsplast GP710 - You pay a premium for this dimnutive sportscruiser but it's aleady a boat that dares to be different. For a start, it has a diesel inboard and a shaftdrive.
Talking Shop - On test with the extraordinary Pulse Drive surface drive system; hydraulic steering; battery charging; more news.
Postcards from the Med - Capri; Balearic berths; that Sicilian bridge; Fethiye; more news.
Watering Hole - Le Paloma, Palma.
Letters - Canal du Midi; Faireys; port and starboard; design question; more.
Chart Update - The chart changes that matter.
Chartwork: 2B Or Not 2B? - Paper charts? We remember them - and we use them too. Here are the tools we wouldn't leave at home.
Biscay in the Snow - Biscay in a winter gale may not be the best place to learn to love boating. But then again the sea has a lure all of its own.
Bartlett on Navigation - AIS is coming; Thuraya phones; Indium deal; how a flux-gate works.
Shop - From sandals to space - things to buy,
Copy Shop - Copies of our past boat tests are an essential tool if you're buying a boat
Ray Bulman's Backchat - Rumble at the jumble.
Destinations: Somme Valley - This beautiful canalised river is a Channel-hop away, offering some outstanding cruising in a delightful region that played host to the darkest morning in British military history.
Cigars and .45s: A Caribbean Delivery - Any Florida-Cuba-Bahamas cruise is likely to be memorable - especially when it takes place aboard a powered catamaran, and the extra-curricular activities involve pistols and shotguns.
David Cowper's Polar Bound - Whenever there's a first to be had on the sea David Cowper is not far behind. His latest adventure is a circumnaviagtion via the most northerly bits of water the ocean has to offer.
Destinations: the Wash - It always seems to be low tide in this forgotten cruising ground. But the visiting boater will find plenty of harbours, holes and rural retreats worth investigating.
Cumberlidge on Cruising - Lighthouses are characterful buildings, as quirky as the coastline they mark and the keepers who once manned them.
Destinations: Atlantic Portugal - Facilities for visiting boaters in Portugal are getting better all the time, so why not take the long route the Med and spend so'me time investigating this fascinating country?
New Boats - Hatteras 6300; new layouts for the Linssen DS45 Variotop Cruiser; Classsic Cruiser 80
COVER STORY - Boat Report: Sealine S48 - Relax-motorboating isn't hard work: that's the message from Sealine's new sportscruiser, which peppered with ideas and gadgets to make life on board as smooth as possible.
Electronics Review - Mini Chart Plotters - Hand-held GPS devices with in-build mapping are everywhere these days - but very few of them are any use to boaters.
E ditorial - Cowper and Buzzi: two men united by a passion to do what has never been done before.
Wavelength - Southampton's Town Quay marina is the be filled in; BMPT open day news; SeaIine bought by Sea Ray's US parent; Class 1 Offshore Plymouth - full preview; Priddy sets Atlanticc mark in RIB; Somme latest; Mariah go plop; more news.
Boat Report: Skibsplast GP710 - You pay a premium for this dimnutive sportscruiser but it's aleady a boat that dares to be different. For a start, it has a diesel inboard and a shaftdrive.
Talking Shop - On test with the extraordinary Pulse Drive surface drive system; hydraulic steering; battery charging; more news.
Postcards from the Med - Capri; Balearic berths; that Sicilian bridge; Fethiye; more news.
Watering Hole - Le Paloma, Palma.
Letters - Canal du Midi; Faireys; port and starboard; design question; more.
Chart Update - The chart changes that matter.
Chartwork: 2B Or Not 2B? - Paper charts? We remember them - and we use them too. Here are the tools we wouldn't leave at home.
Biscay in the Snow - Biscay in a winter gale may not be the best place to learn to love boating. But then again the sea has a lure all of its own.
Bartlett on Navigation - AIS is coming; Thuraya phones; Indium deal; how a flux-gate works.
Shop - From sandals to space - things to buy,
Copy Shop - Copies of our past boat tests are an essential tool if you're buying a boat
Ray Bulman's Backchat - Rumble at the jumble.
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